Hi guys, Don't know if im in the right place, but I tried contacting Diana via her webpage to no avail. Her contact page says she's a moderator here. I am in BC, Canada and I'm looking to get a copy of her book (preferably autographed) for my girlfriends anniversary present. It's the first...

Apologies for stepping out of the planted tank subject.... To anyone in the Southeast that has an aquarium interest, there is a big aquarium trade show, the Carolina Aquatic Expo in South Carolina on Oct 30. I have a table and will be selling autographed copies of my book Ecology of the...

I've spent a lot of time recently musing about tiger lotuses and how attractive they are as an aquatic plant species, but probably not the most suitable for starting up a Walstad tank (the pads take up precious air surface and block out light with little to no nitrogen uptake.) This led me to...

Hello I’m an absolute newbie who has been watching YouTube videos of Walstad style tanks for a long long time. Finally I took the plunge yesterday and started my tank. It’s a 45x27x30cm tank, with mineralised dirt substrate and a coarse sand cap. I think I added too much sand and too little...

I just built my first 5 gallon natural fish tank with soil, gravel, and plants for my betta fish Poppy. I've been testing the water quality with the "API 5 in 1" test strips, which my local aquarium store says they use. The results in both my current 2.6 gallon tank (where my fish currently is)...